John Adams

[jeffalso]

I've been reading about John Adams recently. It's depressing that none of our current representatives share his mind on the function and role of a free Government

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[wodurid]

We moderns tend to think of Adams and other Founding Fathers as a bunch of old-tyme, powered wigged, wooden- toothed, folk heroes. We further imagine that they couldn’t *possibly* have envisioned the complexities of our modern world. But unlike today’s crop of pusillanimous politicians, the Founding Fathers were extremely bright, very well-read and could indeed think …. and think beyond the end of their noses at that!

[indigoth6]

he's one of the founding fathers that I thought was profoundly under rated. we could use another one of him ... actually, several like him.